I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

it's amazing what you can get used to.